Girls in their school start bullying Athena for being Kenji's new girlfriend. Kenji confronts them and warns them that no one can hurt Athena without consequences. Athena and Kenji's pretend relationship eventually became real and the two confess their love for each other. He takes her to Legazpi to see the Mayon Volcano and promises that someday they will get married in that place with the volcano as their witness.

Back to the present, Kenneth receives a call from present day Lucas that the latter wanted to help look for Kenji. On their way, Lucas then continues the story of Athena and Kenji and why they did not end up with each other.

When Athena and Kenji got back to Manila, Kenji started frequently absenting from class. Athena then gets notified by the young Lucas that she should come with him to the hospital. Worried, Athena hurries and finds Abi lying in the hospital bed.

Abi had stage three gastric cancer and this was the reason why she broke up with Kenji. Wanting Abi to be have a sense of happiness and live longer, Athena breaks up with Kenji.

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He and Abi get married, giving birth to Kenneth. The story then returns to the present time. Kelay receives a call from her family informing her that Athena is dying. Kelay and Kenneth part ways with Kenneth promising that Athena and Kenji would meet once he finds him. Kenneth finds the hospital where Kenji is confined and reads Kenji's letter for him. In the letter, Kenji tells him that he was on his way to Legazpi to finally part with his memories with Athena and apologizes for making Kenneth feel unloved.

When Kenji wakes up, they embrace each other and reconcile. Athena tells Kenji about her heart disease for the first time and tells him that his love kept her alive through the years.

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She says she is happy that their love for each other somehow made it possible for Kenji to have Kenneth in his life.

Athena dies in Kenji's arms peacefully. Shortly after, Kelay wakes up to a phone call. The speaker tells her that a flight has gone missing again and Kenneth was on that flight. Kelay goes to the airport to look for Kenneth. She makes a scene again, telling the media her 'boyfriend' is missing. Kenneth then revealed to Kelay that it was actually Kenji who called her. Kenneth asks Kelay if they can have a great love story like Kenji and Athena.

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The story then continues. When Athena visits her friends in a place for playing billiards, she sees Kenji and finds out that the billiards place is the couple's favourite place to hang out. She also learns from her friends that Kenji had just been dumped by his girlfriend. Her friends also reveal to Athena that his ex's name is also Athena and that Kenji refuses to cut his hair until they come back.

From their story, Athena starts to have pity for him. Later that night, she receives another text from him asking why she didn't come. Feeling guilty, Athena chose to not reply.

The following day, while having lunch, Athena's best friend sees Kenji on the payphone that's near them. Athena, fearing that Kenji would find out that the texts go to her instead of his ex, proposes that they leave.

But before they even get to leave, her beeper starts to ring, catching Kenji's attention. Eventually, Kenji finds out that Athena Dizon is the one who receives his texts and calls and not Athena a.

He becomes very angry at Athena for pretending to be Bee. While he talks to her angrily, his ex passes by, resulting him into pushing her against a wall and sinking his head in her neck, making everyone, including Bee, think that he is kissing her, when he really is just whispering to Athena. He asks her if Bee is looking.

After Kenji hears this, he asks Athena to pretend to be his girlfriend so Bee may be jealous and come back to him. Surprised at his request, Athena tells him she will not do it and leaves. Even if Athena refused his request, Kenji does not stop pursuing her. He does a lot of mean things to make Athena his fake girlfriend like tying the laces of both of her shoes together and framing her as the one who hurt one of their professors.

But when she continues to refuse, Kenji does something crazy. He goes on the roof of the building and everyone is convinced that he will end his life if Athena will still refuse to be his girlfriend. Because of fear that Kenji really will jump off the building, Athena says yes.

During their fake relationship, Kenji makes sure that him and Athena are doing romantic things while Bee is around, but when she is not they bicker and fight.

She also forms a friendship with a new student named Lucas, who ends up being Bee's new boyfriend. During Athena's physical education class, her female classmates throw volleyballs at her and tell her that they don't even look good together because they are jealous of her "relationship" with the gangster.

Hurt physically and emotionally, Athena takes her bag and runs out of the gym.

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While running out, she bumps into Kenji who is surprised by the bruises she got. He eventually insists that they go to his house so he may treat her bruises.

In Kenji's house, Athena learns a lot about him. She asks him a lot of question including if loving someone hurts so bad. He tells her that she should just find out herself to which she replies that she cannot because her heart is weak.

The next day, Kenji brings Athena to the salon to have a new hairstyle. When he drives her to school, he wears the same type of glasses she wears so that the girls who hurt her can see that they look good together. He also tries to give the girls a taste of their own medicine by threatening to throw balls at them, which does not continue because Athena does not wish to hurt them. One day, Athena does not go to school and her best friend cannot tell Kenji why leaving him confused.

It is later revealed that Athena has a heart disease where she cannot experience extreme emotions such as being too happy, angry, sad, or even falling in love. As their fake relationship continues, Athena start to have feelings for Kenji. Because of this, she breaks the deal off only to find out that Kenji also has feelings for her and wants the relationship to be real. Not able to avoid her feelings, Athena agrees to be his real girlfriend.

The story is once again interrupted when the bus driver kicks Kelay and Kenneth out because they keep on bickering and fighting. After they are kicked out, Kenneth becomes mad at Kelay and her Aunt Athena. Kelay also becomes angry and asks him if he was even listening to the story and she once again emphasizes the fact that her aunt has done nothing wrong.

He says that he has been listening and that the story makes him hate Kelay's aunt more because their love story makes him feel guilty. Kelay, feeling bad for Kenneth and realizing that bringing Kenneth to his father is more important than bringing Kenji to Athena, gets the attention of a truck which is owned by a couple. The couple lets them ride the truck. During the ride, Kelay continues Kenji and Athena's story. Kenji goes to the salon to have his hair finally cut, because he has moved on from Bee.

He then brings Athena to different places, resulting to her going home late, which makes her parents worried. They get even more worried when Kenji brings her all the way to her province and tells her in front of Mt. Mayon that they will get married there.

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Athena tells her parents to not get worried because she believes that Kenji's love will make her live longer just as how her parents' love had. The story is once again interrupted by Kenneth saying that maybe seeing Athena was why Kenji went to the province instead of going on his business trip.

Kelay tells him that that cannot be because Athena is in Manila and not in the province. Kelay and Kenneth have eventually arrived at the province. They go straight to the church where Kelay prays for Kenneth to find his father and for Bee to not haunt them when Kenji and Athena reunite. After Kelay finishes praying, Kenneth asks her what happened next and why they didn't end up together.

Kelay says that her aunt never actually revealed what happened next. All her aunt told her is that the reason was bad timing. Kenneth and Kelay, not knowing which hospital Kenji is in, goes to one hospital to another until a much older Lucas comes and tells them that he knows where he is. And so Kenneth and Kelay go in his car.

Kenneth then asks Lucas, out of curiosity, if he knows the reason why Athena and his father did not end up together. Lucas says he knew why and decides to finish the story. When Athena goes back to school, she finds Kenji absent.

Later that day, Lucas comes and tells Athena to come with him because Kenji is at the hospital. Worried, Athena goes with him. She goes in the hospital room Lucas said Kenji was in.